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mm – two-digit month, e.g. 03; mmm – three-letter abbreviation for month, e.g. Mar; mmmm – month spelled out in full, e.g. March; d – one-digit day of the month for days below 10, e.g. 2; dd – two-digit day of the month, e.g. 02; ddd – three-letter abbreviation for day of the week, e.g. Fri; dddd – day of the week spelled out in ...
The Chicago Manual of Style discourages writers from writing all-numeric dates, other than the year-month-day format advocated by ISO 8601, as it is not comprehensible to readers outside the United States. [5] [6] The day-month-year order has been increasing in usage since the early 1980s.
Three-letter abbreviations are accepted (e.g. Jan, Feb, etc.) w: weekday numeric format, spelt out in full or abbreviated Three-letter abbreviations are accepted (e.g. Sun, Mon, etc.) The weekday numbering follows ISO practice (Sunday → 0, Monday → 1, ... Saturday → 6). n: count numeric format, spelt out in full or abbreviated
One form of the mnemonic is done by counting on the knuckles of one's hand to remember the number of days in each month. [1] Knuckles are counted as 31 days, depressions between knuckles as 30 (or 28/29) days. One starts with the little finger knuckle as January, and one finger or depression at a time is counted towards the index finger knuckle ...
A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, that is approximately as long as a natural phase cycle of the Moon; the words month and Moon are cognates.The traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days, making for roughly 12.37 such months in one Earth year.
As long as the only language being used in English, the three-letter abbreviation remains clear. I see a lot of people here showing dates along these lines, such as the one above, "15 January 2006," (which looks nicer) and with dates formatted either way there I don't think anyone would be able to confuse month and day values.
A variation with three cubes providing English abbreviations for the twelve months is discussed in a Scientific American column in December 1977. [6] One solution of this variation allows displaying the first three letters of any month and relies on the fact that lower-case letters u and n and also p and d are inverses of each other.
9/xi/06, 9.xi.06, 9-xi.06, 9/xi-06, 9.XI.2006, 9. XI. 2006 or 9 XI 2006 (using the Roman numeral for the month) – In the past, this was a common and typical way of distinguishing day from month and was widely used in many countries, but recently this practice has been affected by the general retreat from the use of Roman numerals.